Our son played while our daughter filmed from the warmth of our breakfast room. Enjoy!
The snow continues! Estimates this morning at 6:30 were over 80 cm so far, and it is STILL coming down!!!
The "boys" had to shovel about 12" so Tom could get out to work. And we just got back in after helping get Tom out of the neighborhood. He managed the driveway, but driving to the plowed main avenue enough snow crammed under the car that he had absolutely no traction. Pushing wasn't enough, so out came the shovels.
One of our neighbors came up and helped as well. I do love the gung ho, can I help push attitude of our Canadian neighbors. This is when they shine! It looks like all of us will have plenty of those moments to shine this week!
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
And More Snow!
Peter climbed out into the backyard to measure accumulation at 1 pm. Over 20". Since then we estimate another 2-4" has fallen. Schools are closed, that is except ours. The joys (and not to many joys for some) of home schooling. I promise not to be too tough. In fact, we're about to take a "home economics" break and bake some treats.
I tried to capture the snow falling. Can you guess which little dog does not like going outside to take care of business? Jess, on the other hand, loves it. She has blazed a trail around the perimeter just in front of all our massive pine and cedar trees.
Looking out from the Dining Room. The window sill has about 8" of snow. Better to be inside looking out!
View out a Family Room window. The hill is our little Alberta Spruce just off the lower deck. The sticks are raspberry canes, waiting for warmer weather! Somewhere under all that snow next to the spruce are the strawberries and hostas.
Oh! Snow!
It started on December 1st with a few days of light flurries. And so far, in the past 24+ hours we have had well over 18"!!! Saint Nick arrived on time, though, dropping off chocolate coins and a new movie (as per a tradition we set years ago.)
Schools here in London are cancelled, and the noise of sheer, unadulterated (emphasis on no adults) laughter is infectious. Our son has been very busy trying to keep both the driveway, sidewalk to the front door, and back deck cleared. In fact he was up well before Tom, and out shoveling by 5:30 am, knowing his Dad would need a clear driveway to get to work.
He went out once more, but we now have another couple of inches on the shoveled areas. Here are some pictures of our new scenery! Notice how deep the roof snow is!
Here is to keeping warm, and everyone safe on the roads today, and the remainder of the week.
Schools here in London are cancelled, and the noise of sheer, unadulterated (emphasis on no adults) laughter is infectious. Our son has been very busy trying to keep both the driveway, sidewalk to the front door, and back deck cleared. In fact he was up well before Tom, and out shoveling by 5:30 am, knowing his Dad would need a clear driveway to get to work.
He went out once more, but we now have another couple of inches on the shoveled areas. Here are some pictures of our new scenery! Notice how deep the roof snow is!
Here is to keeping warm, and everyone safe on the roads today, and the remainder of the week.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Colorado Trip
We had a wonderful visit with relatives in Colorado. The recipes for our Thanksgiving meal was courtesy of Sunset Magazine. The turkey was brined, then spun on the BBQ. We enjoyed several new dishes, and now have some new favorites. Not only did we get to enjoy Thanksgiving together, we had many other huge family meals! Both of Tom's sisters were generous hostesses.
Here are some pictures to share. I had to have a picture of the deer crossing sign. We saw the same thing driving through Lansing, MI ... made me smile that time, as well.
Here are some pictures to share. I had to have a picture of the deer crossing sign. We saw the same thing driving through Lansing, MI ... made me smile that time, as well.
Rudolf crossing sign.
Closest we got to the snow.
Riley, fastest tennis ball catcher in Boulder.
Tom and Ray...
(but not the Magliozzi brothers .. sure do miss listening to Car Talk.)
Friday, November 19, 2010
Thanksgiving Week Travel Plans
Tom will be flying home from his week in Yellowknife. He told me last night that he has had to deal with a hot hotel room, and then plunging cold outside. That makes for a compromised immune system. Vitamin D and C will be generously dished out on his return.
We have only today and tomorrow to get the pets, house and us ready to leave for Colorado. The weather looks promising for the drive out. We hope it holds for the drive home, too! Our first Thanksgiving as a newly married couple involved a serious car accident, and we do not want a repeat of that!
The pets aren't coming, but we do have to have the house ready so they can be alone for the majority of the day and evening. Kind neighbors will be feeding and giving them social time while we are gone.
Other than that, we expect to have a more leisurely drive west than the last one the beginning of October.
We all hope that you each have a good Thanksgiving holiday together with your friends and family. Each year we look back over the previous year, and realize how blessed we have been. We can also see the challenges, and whether we each rose or fell to the occasion.
This Thanksgiving our immediate family will be apart. The college girls in Houston, our oldest in Germany with her better half, and us in Colorado with most of Tom's family. Some of my family will gather in Las Vegas at a sister's home, and another sister will have her family gathering at their home in Washington. With God's grace, most of my family is planning a trip back "home" for the 4th of July. Can't wait to see them all, and to meet all the newest members from my nephews' and nieces' families.
May you each receive an awareness of your blessings, may you each receive help in carrying your burdens, and may you each receive consolation in your sorrows.
We have only today and tomorrow to get the pets, house and us ready to leave for Colorado. The weather looks promising for the drive out. We hope it holds for the drive home, too! Our first Thanksgiving as a newly married couple involved a serious car accident, and we do not want a repeat of that!
The pets aren't coming, but we do have to have the house ready so they can be alone for the majority of the day and evening. Kind neighbors will be feeding and giving them social time while we are gone.
Other than that, we expect to have a more leisurely drive west than the last one the beginning of October.
We all hope that you each have a good Thanksgiving holiday together with your friends and family. Each year we look back over the previous year, and realize how blessed we have been. We can also see the challenges, and whether we each rose or fell to the occasion.
This Thanksgiving our immediate family will be apart. The college girls in Houston, our oldest in Germany with her better half, and us in Colorado with most of Tom's family. Some of my family will gather in Las Vegas at a sister's home, and another sister will have her family gathering at their home in Washington. With God's grace, most of my family is planning a trip back "home" for the 4th of July. Can't wait to see them all, and to meet all the newest members from my nephews' and nieces' families.
May you each receive an awareness of your blessings, may you each receive help in carrying your burdens, and may you each receive consolation in your sorrows.
Wake Up Call
Just thankful that our travels this Thanksgiving week are by car. Sure hope this is stopped before our two daughters fly north for the Christmas holidays. Please, pass this on ... it is outrageous, and as Rep. Paul says, if it is illegal (not to say anything about immoral) for an individual to do this, how on earth can it be okay for an agent of the Federal government to do it?
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Pass it On!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwhKuunp8D8&feature=player_embedded
Likely this will be taken off soon ... but our President is not legally able to be our President. Why on earth do we have to continue. Put Joe Biden in and have done with it all. That is why we have a Constitution. That is why we are a Republic, ruled by law, not by the whims of the majority ... and even less so by the elite who "know better." Another thing ... find this book and read it:
A History of the American People by Paul Johnson
It is not a simple book to read ... don't expect to find this easy to read, either. But, I'd bet that if you read my blog, you enjoy thinking, and this book will make you think. It will also make you laugh, chuckle, cringe and see how we are seen by someone who is not from the USA.
Oh! And Pass on this link ASAP .. we know that YouTube isn't able to hold on to many things for long because of the oversight (in part from Homeland Security) ... Just hope I don't get stopped at the border the next time I cross!!!!
Likely this will be taken off soon ... but our President is not legally able to be our President. Why on earth do we have to continue. Put Joe Biden in and have done with it all. That is why we have a Constitution. That is why we are a Republic, ruled by law, not by the whims of the majority ... and even less so by the elite who "know better." Another thing ... find this book and read it:
A History of the American People by Paul Johnson
It is not a simple book to read ... don't expect to find this easy to read, either. But, I'd bet that if you read my blog, you enjoy thinking, and this book will make you think. It will also make you laugh, chuckle, cringe and see how we are seen by someone who is not from the USA.
Oh! And Pass on this link ASAP .. we know that YouTube isn't able to hold on to many things for long because of the oversight (in part from Homeland Security) ... Just hope I don't get stopped at the border the next time I cross!!!!
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